#18: How to Understand the Middle-East with Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations

Steven A. Cook is an Eni Enrico
Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the
Council on Foreign Relations. He is an expert on Arab and Turkish
politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook has published
widely in foreign policy journals, opinion magazines, and
newspapers, and he is a frequent commentator on radio and
television. He also currently writes the blogFrom the Potomac to the
Euphrates. His latest
book,False Dawn:
Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle Eastwill be available May
2017.

In this special edition of the
IVY Podcast, Steven joined us at IVY HQ for a live discussion
on the current geopolitical climate in Syria and how to achieve
peace in the middle east.

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